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2017 SCHOOLS PROGRAMME 16– 18 MAY SUPPORTED BY THE FREEMASONS FOUNDATION AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WRITERSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ SCHOOLS PROGRAMME 16– 18 MAY 2017 The Auckland Writers Festival is delighted to deliver, with the support of the Freemasons Foundation, its ninth Schools Programme, designed to inspire young writers and readers through the world of story. We continue our development of this programme with one full day for Years 5-6 students, alongside one full day for Years 7-10, and two days for Years 9-13; increased transport support funds to assist schools with travel and three new schools sponsored to attend with the generous support of Josephine and Ross Green. Day attendance (entry to four sessions) is just $12 per student and must be booked through schools. Workshops are $15 per workshop per student. Teachers attend free. Ticketing information, booking forms and transport subsidy applications can be found at the back of this programme. All presentation sessions are 45 minutes long, including audience questions. Workshop sessions are one hour long. Books are available for purchase at the Festival Bookshop and writers will be available to sign books in the breaks. OUR 2017 FEATURED WRITERS illustrator, writer and comic artist fairy tale writer Renata Hopkins (NZ) Donovan Bixley (NZ) page and script writer Witi Ihimaera (NZ) blogger Alex Casey (NZ) sci-fi and fantasy writerAmie Kaufman (Australia) author and illustrator Lauren Child (England) writer and graphic designer Sarah Laing (NZ) songwriter and musician Anna Coddington (NZ) memoirist and novelist poet and doctor Glenn Colquhoun (NZ) Hisham Matar (Libya/England) performer and writer Ivan Coyote (Canada) novelist, short story writer, essayist and teacher Paula Morris (NZ) creativity campaigner, writer and performer Stella Duffy (NZ/England) teenage realism writer Jennifer Niven (US) novelist, short story, script and resource writer Shakespeare expert James Shapiro (US) Mandy Hager (NZ) children’s fiction writer and community worker fantasy writer Frances Hardinge (England) Tim Tipene (NZ) spoken word poet Mohamed Hassan (Egypt/NZ) adventure-sports themed novelist Aaron Topp (NZ) reviewer, playwright and children’s writer animator and illustrator David Hill (NZ) Zak Waipara (NZ) 2 HERE’S THE PLAN DAY 1 - TUESDAY 16 MAY – AOTEA CENTRE PRIMARY – YEARS 5 & 6, 10.00AM-2.40PM WORKSHOPS 10.00am – 10.45am Lower NZI Room Lauren Child Hour-long writing workshops are 10.55am – 11.40am Lower NZI Room Tim Tipene offered each day for intermediate and secondary students (maximum student 11.40am Lunch & Book Signing numbers specified for each workshop; 12.30pm – 1.15pm Lower NZI Room Donovan Bixley cost $15 per student). These workshops 1.25pm – 2.10pm Lower NZI Room Renata Hopkins provide highly motivated students with a rare opportunity to learn from, and be 2.10pm Finish & Book Signing inspired by, leading writers. INTERMEDIATE / LOWER SECONDARY – YEARS 7–10, 10.00AM-2.40PM Please note that spaces fill quickly 10.00am – 10.45am ASB Theatre Glenn Colquhoun and bookings are on a first come, first served basis. An initial limit of five 10.55am – 11.40am ASB Theatre Frances Hardinge students per school per workshop 11.40am Lunch & Book Signing will apply. Additional students can 12.30pm – 1.15pm ASB Theatre David Hill be waitlisted, pending available space 1.25pm – 2.10pm ASB Theatre Lauren Child once bookings close. 2.10pm Finish & Book Signing TUESDAY 16 MAY – YEARS 7-10 9.40am David Hill, 10.50am Renata DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY 17 MAY – AOTEA CENTRE Hopkins, 12.15pm Zak Waipara, SECONDARY – YEARS 9–13, 9.45AM-2.45PM 1.25pm Glenn Colquhoun (details in 9.45am – Welcome programme) 9.50am – 10.35am ASB Theatre Stella Duffy WEDNESDAY 17 MAY – YEARS 9-13 Lower NZI Room Glenn Colquhoun 9.40am Alex Casey, 10.50am Mohamed 10.50am – 11.35am ASB Theatre Jennifer Niven Hassan, 12.15pm Renata Hopkins, Lower NZI Room Sarah Laing 1.25pm Jennifer Niven (details in 11.35am Lunch & Book Signing programme) 12.30pm – 1.15pm ASB Theatre Witi Ihimaera THURSDAY 18 MAY – YEARS 9-13 Lower NZI Room Amie Kaufman 9.40am Aaron Topp, 10.50am Sarah 1.30pm – 2.15pm ASB Theatre Ivan Coyote Laing, 12.15pm Amie Kaufman, Lower NZI Room Aaron Topp 1.25pm Mohamed Hassan (details in programme) 2.15pm Finish & Book Signing DAY 3 - THURSDAY 18 MAY – AOTEA CENTRE SECONDARY – YEARS 9–13, 9.45AM-2.45PM 9.45am – Welcome SCHOOLS 9.50am – 10.35am ASB Theatre Jennifer Niven TRANSPORT FUND Lower NZI Room Anna Coddington APPLICATIONS INVITED 10.50am – 11.35am ASB Theatre Ivan Coyote Schools are invited to apply for grants Lower NZI Room Mandy Hager towards travel costs. Please see the Schools Transport Fund Application 11.35am Lunch & Book Signing Form attached, or download it from the 12.30pm – 1.15pm ASB Theatre James Shapiro Festival website. Lower NZI Room Paula Morris The deadline for applications is 1.30pm – 2.15pm ASB Theatre Frances Hardinge Tuesday 28 February 2017. Lower NZI Room Hisham Matar 2.15pm Finish & Book Signing 3 SESSIONS – DAY 1 TUESDAY 16 MAY UPPER PRIMARY LOWER NZI ROOM – AOTEA CENTRE Note: Doors will open at 9.30am and students will be ushered into their venues; the first sessions start promptly at 10am. MORNING AFTERNOON 01 03 CLARICE BEAN FLYING FURBALLS LAUREN CHILD DONOVAN BIXLEY YEARS 5-6 – 10.00AM-10.45AM – LOWER NZI ROOM YEARS 5-6 – 12.30PM-1.15PM – LOWER NZI ROOM Bestselling author, illustrator and TV producer Lauren Child is the Now published in 28 countries, Donovan Bixley has been drawing creator of the phenomenally successful Charlie and Lola, Ruby Redfort and writing stories from early childhood. He has illustrated over 100 and Clarice Bean series. Her books have been translated into dozens character-filled and entertaining books from the hair-raising hijinks of languages around the world and she has won numerous prizes, of his junior chapter book series Flying Furballs, to his award-winning including the Smarties Prize (four times), the Kate Greenaway Medal illustrated biography Much Ado About Shakespeare. In this session he and the Red House Children’s Book Award. Enter the world of Clarice talks about how he brings words and pictures together to tell the story Bean with Lauren and hear her talk about her writing inspirations. and balances the roles of author and illustrator. 02 04 CATCHING THE SUN AND LIVING LIKE MAUI A ROOM FULL OF STORIES TIM TIPENE RENATA HOPKINS YEARS 5-6 – 10.55AM-11.40AM – LOWER NZI ROOM YEARS 5-6 – 1.25PM-2.10PM – LOWER NZI ROOM Tim Tipene (Nga-ti Kuri, Nga-ti Wha-tua) is the award-winning author One of the contributors of Gecko Press’s game-changing Annual, edited of 10 children’s books and junior novels including Kura Toa, Haere by Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris, is Renata Hopkins who has written and Taming the Taniwha. He is a pioneering youth and self-defence for the page, stage and screen. She is a regular contributor to The School counsellor and leads the Warrior Kids and PeaceMasters programmes. Journal and a winner of the Once Upon a Time: Grimm Fairy Tales for Tim shares childhood experiences of overcoming adversity and Aotearoa New Zealand competition. Renata talks about how we find becoming an author, his writing process and how to pursue your own and tell stories, showing how what we live, read, hear and dream can dreams. be turned into wonderful fiction. 11.40AM-12.25PM – LUNCH AND BOOK SIGNING: 2.10PM-2.40PM – FINISH AND BOOK SIGNING: LAUREN CHILD, TIM TIPENE DONOVAN BIXLEY, RENATA HOPKINS 4 SESSIONS – DAY 1 TUESDAY 16 MAY INTERMEDIATE / LOWER SECONDARY ASB THEATRE – AOTEA CENTRE MORNING AFTERNOON 05 07 TOTEMS WAR STORIES GLENN COLQUHOUN DAVID HILL YEARS 7-10 – 10.00AM-10.45AM – ASB THEATRE YEARS 7-10 – 12.30PM-1.15PM – ASB THEATRE Glenn Colquhoun is a children’s writer, poet, and doctor. His first Winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy medal in 2005, David collection, The Art of Walking Upright, won the Jessie Mackay best first Hill writes full-time, contributing a range of stories, articles, book of poetry award at the 2000 Montana Book Awards, and his third reviews and plays to newspapers, radio and journals nationally and collection Playing God, won both the poetry and the reader’s choice internationally. His WWI novel My Brother’s War won the Junior sections of those awards in 2003 and made him the first NZ poet to Fiction Award in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children sell 5000 copies of a book. Accompanied by foot-high totems of NZ and Young Adults and both the YA novel Enemy Camp, which was a historical figures, and inspired by the likes of Robbie Burns and Te 2016 Children’s Book Awards shortlisted title, and Flight Path (2017), Rauparaha, Glenn will use song and poetry to explore our history. explore quite different stories of World War II. David will discuss what it is about war that makes such a compelling backdrop to fiction. 06 08 CUCKOOS AND LIES RUBY REDFORT FRANCES HARDINGE LAUREN CHILD YEARS 7-10 – 10.55AM-11.40AM – ASB THEATRE YEARS 7-10 – 1.25PM-2.10PM – ASB THEATRE Brought up in a succession of small, sinister English villages, Costa Bestselling author, illustrator and TV producer Lauren Child is the winning writer Frances Hardinge spent her formative years living in creator of much-loved series Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby a Gothic-looking, mouse-infested house in Kent, and studied English Redfort, the last of which has been described by The Independent as “so Language and Literature amid the archaic beauty of Oxford, all of good it’s exhilarating”.